two French pairs enter the men’s doubles table

2023-07-04 22:49:57
By Le Figaro with AFP

Posted 3 hours ago, Just Updated

Associated with Constant Lestienne, Corentin Moutet (photo) joins the men’s doubles table. Antoine Couvercelle / Panoramic / PANORAMIC

Two French doubles teams, consisting of Grégoire Barrère and Quentin Halys, as well as Constant Lestienne and Corentin Moutet, were included in the Wimbledon doubles tournament table on Tuesday after withdrawals. The Barrère / Halys pair first benefited from the withdrawal of that composed of the Romanian Victor Cornea and the Serbian Dusan Lajovic, announced the organizers. Lajovic has indeed withdrawn for “fatigue“. Barrère and Halys will face in the first round their compatriot Edouard Roger-Vasselin associated with the Mexican Santiago Gonzalez. Barrère and Halys are also involved in singles: the first must face the South African Lloyd Harris in the first round and the second beat the Briton Daniel Evans on Tuesday evening. In the afternoon, the Spanish team Albert Ramos and Bernabe Zapata gave way to Lestienne and Moutet.

Tournament organizers initially cited Zapata’s fatigue before announcing in the evening that it was in fact Ramos who wanted to retire from the competition. They will face the Colombian Nicolas Barrientos and the Portuguese Nuno Borges. The two Frenchmen had contrasting spells in the singles, Moutet outscoring compatriot Richard Gasquet 6-3, 7-5, 7-5, while Lestienne bowed to British qualifier Liam Broady 6-1, 6-3, 7- 5.